NOTES ON MOSQUITOES AND OTHER BLOOD-SUCKING FILES FROM PORTO RICO*

Experimental analysis of the blood-sucking mechanism of female mosquitoes.

Pioneering studies have been conducted to reveal the functional characteristics of the two-pump system of the female mosquito. Mosquitoes are equipped with two pumping organs located in the head: the cibarial (CP) and the pharyngeal (PP) pumps. To analyze the functional relationship of these pumps during the blood-sucking process, micro-particle image velocimetry (PIV) and synchrotron X-ray mic...

West Nile Virus from Blood Donors, Vertebrates, and Mosquitoes, Puerto Rico, 2007

West Nile virus (WNV) was isolated from a human blood donor, a dead falcon, and mosquitoes in Puerto Rico in 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of the 4 isolates suggests a recent introduction of lineage I WNV that is closely related to WNV currently circulating in North America.

Determination of Blood Groups from Meals of Blood-Sucking Insects

B. C. DAS, m.sc. (f/orn the Laboratory of the Imperial Serologist and Chemical Examiner to the Government of India, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta) mi.. * 'ie material.?Mosquitoes and bed bugs were ^ed on subjects of known blood groups an squashed on chemically pure filter-paper. stains so obtained were dried. _ The insects were bred from eggs in the Entom logical Department of the Schoo...

Notes on Silurian Fossils from Ohio and Other Central States

Notes from the Field: Varicella Fatality on a Cargo Vessel — Puerto Rico, 2015

The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (42 §71.21) requires that the master of a ship destined to a U.S. port of entry report certain illnesses, as well as any death onboard to the nearest CDC Quarantine Station (1). On December 30, 2015, the U.S. Coast Guard notified CDC of the death of a crew member of a foreign cargo vessel off the coast of Puerto Rico. Four days earlier, on December 26, the p...